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What happens if you are given incompatible blood during a blood transfusion?
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Depends: Not all incompatibilities result in damage. Some ABO incompatibilities may cause intravascular hemolysis and even death. Other incompatibilities may not be benign or produce a delayed extravascular hemolysis.
Answered 6/10/2017
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